Word: trots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Master list were those of Raymond Scott. This conscientious and well-schooled pianist-composer, heretofore unrecorded, began appearing on Columbia Broadcasting System's Saturday Night Swing sessions last January. Not swing musicians at all, since they are not free to improvise, the Scott Quintet does play in fox-trot tempo. What makes their music remarkable is that they play Scott's unconventional compositions, and play them with a finesse, variation and volume expected only of a 20-piece band. At present sold out is the one Scott record so far released to dealers, Twilight in Turkey and Minuet...
...Juvenile Bureau: "We do not intend to smirch the reputations of the high-school girls, most of whom are of prominent families." But another police official snapped: "The boys all came through like little gentlemen and told the truth. But the babes [girls] lied faster than a horse can trot. Honest, we never saw such fibbers...
...British officer. He had to change his name often. Once, when his alias was Gallagher, the friendly countrymen called him Kelly, thinking his name might really be Gallagher. Worst thing about his hunted life was the food: everlasting bacon & cabbage, and "strong tea that a mouse could trot...
Jovial, grey-haired, leather-faced Major Tuttle was a Boston lawyer before he joined the Army in the War. His three high-school horses, Vast, Si Murray and Olympic, can each do 135 different tricks. Each trick has a technical name like the piaffé (trotting on one spot), the passage (highly accentuated trot with slight forward movement). His horses get neither beatings for punishment nor carrots for reward. The best that they can hope for is an occasional pat. The immobility of a good dressage rider is actually an illusion. He achieves his effects by shifts of weight...
...that any attempt to take political advantage of that circumstance would react sharply against him. Day before the meeting it was announced that he would not seek to commit his conferees to any statement of policy. Sternly rejected was a proposal by Democratic Governor Clyde Herring of Iowa to trot the President out for a bow and a speech at the State Fair while Governor Landon lolled in his hotel. Instead, President Roosevelt ordered himself treated as non-politically as Governor Landon planned to be. Des Moines was stripped clean of campaign posters, signs and banners, which were replaced...